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Guest

//ɡɛst// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

    "The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee."

  2. 2
    A river in Virginia, United States, a tributary of the Clinch.
  3. 3
    An unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States.
  4. 4
    A visitor to any of the Disney theme parks
Noun
  1. 1
    A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.

    "The guests were let in by the butler."

  2. 2
    (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network wordnet
  3. 3
    A patron or customer in a hotel etc.

    "Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure."

  4. 4
    a visitor to whom hospitality is extended wordnet
  5. 5
    An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.

    "special guest"

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  1. 6
    a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc. wordnet
  2. 7
    A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
  3. 8
    Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
  4. 9
    An inquiline.
Verb
  1. 1
    To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast. intransitive

    "During the '60s, he guested as off-beat characters on TV shows like "The Asphalt Jungle," "Bus Stop," and "The Detectives.""

  2. 2
    As a musician: to play as a guest, providing an instrument that a band/orchestra does not normally have in its line up (for instance, percussion in a string band). intransitive

    "Oldest son Trey, from Will's first marriage, paved the way for his sibling's stardom when he guested on his dad's hit rap album, Big Willie Style, lending some precocious dialogue to the beginning of "Just the Two of Us" and starring in the accompanying music video:"

  3. 3
    To receive or entertain hospitably. obsolete, transitive

    "Two Angels sent Two Heav'nly Scowts the Lord to Sodom sent ; downe , received and guested"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ġiest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”). Cognate with Bavarian Gåst (“guest”), Dutch gast (“guest”), German Gast (“guest”), Luxembourgish Gaascht (“guest”), Vilamovian gost (“guest”), Yiddish גאַסט (gast, “guest”), Danish gæst (“guest, visitor”), Faroese, Icelandic gestur (“guest”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk gjest (“guest”), Swedish gäst (“guest”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (gasts, “guest”). Doublet of host, from Latin.

Etymology 2

From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ġiest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”). Cognate with Bavarian Gåst (“guest”), Dutch gast (“guest”), German Gast (“guest”), Luxembourgish Gaascht (“guest”), Vilamovian gost (“guest”), Yiddish גאַסט (gast, “guest”), Danish gæst (“guest, visitor”), Faroese, Icelandic gestur (“guest”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk gjest (“guest”), Swedish gäst (“guest”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (gasts, “guest”). Doublet of host, from Latin.

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